Model 597 Table Lamp

Design: Gianfranco Frattini 1961, Gubi

Concept: With roots dating back to 1961, the Gubi Model 597 is the lamp that launched Italian designer Gianfranco Frattini's career as a lighting designer. A lamp that is short and cylindrical, and houses several bulbs and beautiful fringes that beautifully hide the lamp's light sources. The lamp's unique and almost playful shape helps to encapsulate Gianfranco Franttini's approach to the aesthetics of light. More than six decades after the lamp's first production, Model 597 is back. The Model 597's unique nylon fringe was inspired by both the fashion world and the fringed entrance curtains often found in Italy's bars and convenience stores in the late 1950s. Due to the design of the lamp, both the floor lamp and the table lamp radiates 360 degrees of indirect light, which is pleasantly softened by the hanging fringes. Together, they help to create a fantastic atmosphere in the rooms in which they are placed.